Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on the Schools Assistance Bill 2008 and the Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2008. I am privileged to have been in the House of Representatives since 1996 and during that time I have seen a bit of water go under the bridge. I have seen the Labor Party in opposition and I now see them in government. During the term of the Howard government I saw the Labor Party philosophy and their position on various matters of public policy, one of them being education. I saw for many years the Labor Party railing against, and voting against support for, private schooling. I have become, in my old age, just a bit cynical, and I just wonder—

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